A Drone Takes 4K, 1,000 FPS Video Footage for the First Time | Digital Trends
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Get a powerful drone, rig it with a 4K digital used cars for sale camera, ask a professional stunt driver race large vehicles through pools of mud, and you ve got yourself some sweet slow-motion video footage. That s exactly what an entertainment and production company spent more than $150,000 to do.
Brain Farm, based in Jackson, Wyoming, recently unveiled what it called the latest weapon in its arsenal of cinematic technology . The weapon comprises a Phantom Flex4K high-speed digital camera (which costs $99,000 to $159,900, depending on configuration) attached to a juiced-up version of an Aerigon drone ($50,000).
That costly rig fulfilled Brain Farm CEO Curt Morgan s dream of getting superb slow-motion images from the sky. I ve stayed up at night for five years trying to figure out how to fly a Phantom on a drone, Morgan says in the company s video of the first footage from the super drone. The problem was it was too heavy.
The Phantom Flex4K camera, which can shoot more than 1,000 frames per second at 4K resolution , weighs 14 pounds without a lens or viewfinder. used cars for sale To get it off the ground, Brain Farm got help from Swedish drone manufacturer Intuitive Aerial to enhance an Aerigon drone with 40 percent more power, according to Popular Mechanics . The finished product was a six-armed, 12-propeller drone capable of lifting used cars for sale a 30-pound setup, which included the camera and a special cradle.
256
Our Score 5
Get a powerful drone, rig it with a 4K digital used cars for sale camera, ask a professional stunt driver race large vehicles through pools of mud, and you ve got yourself some sweet slow-motion video footage. That s exactly what an entertainment and production company spent more than $150,000 to do.
Brain Farm, based in Jackson, Wyoming, recently unveiled what it called the latest weapon in its arsenal of cinematic technology . The weapon comprises a Phantom Flex4K high-speed digital camera (which costs $99,000 to $159,900, depending on configuration) attached to a juiced-up version of an Aerigon drone ($50,000).
That costly rig fulfilled Brain Farm CEO Curt Morgan s dream of getting superb slow-motion images from the sky. I ve stayed up at night for five years trying to figure out how to fly a Phantom on a drone, Morgan says in the company s video of the first footage from the super drone. The problem was it was too heavy.
The Phantom Flex4K camera, which can shoot more than 1,000 frames per second at 4K resolution , weighs 14 pounds without a lens or viewfinder. used cars for sale To get it off the ground, Brain Farm got help from Swedish drone manufacturer Intuitive Aerial to enhance an Aerigon drone with 40 percent more power, according to Popular Mechanics . The finished product was a six-armed, 12-propeller drone capable of lifting used cars for sale a 30-pound setup, which included the camera and a special cradle.
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